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Life is always for so many different challenges and chapters.

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Just living life to the max is what motivates me.

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Welcome to the Guardian Long Read, showcasing the best long-form journalism covering culture,

politics and new thinking.

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The Invisible Addiction is a time to give up caffeine.

Caffeine makes us more energetic, efficient and faster, but we have become so dependent

that we need it just to get to our baseline by Michael Poland, read by Christopher Ragland

and produced by Esther O'Pockugeni.

After years of starting the day with a tall morning coffee, followed by several glasses

of green tea at intervals and the occasional cappuccino after lunch, I quit caffeine

cold turkey.

It was not something that I particularly wanted to do, but I had come to the reluctant conclusion

that the story I was writing demanded it.

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